Image of the Month — Fagradalsfjall Volcano at Geldingadalir, Iceland

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FILMS — MARCH 2021

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(Ver­ho­even 1990) Total Recall
(Cur­tiz 1947) Life with Father
(Branagh 2020) Artemis Fowl
(Strock & Siod­mak 1962) The Dev­il’s Messenger
(Trelfer 2021) Dark Cor­ners Review: The Dev­il’s Messenger
(Rye 2017) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.112 ― Crime and Punishment
(Hon­da 1965) Franken­stein Con­quers the World [aka Franken­stein vs. Baragon]
(Trelfer 2021) Dark Cor­ners Review: Franken­stein Con­quers the World
(Tenold 2018) Bran­don’s Cult Movie Reviews: Franken­stein Con­quers the World
(Lobue 1984) Oh Made­line: Ep.17 ― Play Crys­tal for Me
(McGoohan 1967) The Pris­on­er: Ep.11 ― A Change of Mind
(Ver­ho­even 1980) Spetters
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First-time listening for March 2021

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26105. (Plat­ters) Four Plat­ters and One Love­ly, Vol.9
26106. (Johann Nepo­muk Hum­mel) Grand Con­cer­to for Bas­soon and Orches­tra in F, 
. . . . . woO23/S.63
26107. (Suf­jan Stevens) A Sun Came!
26108. (Wax­a­hatch­ee) Ivy Tripp
26109. (Miles Davis) Four
26110. (Arthur Sul­li­van & W. S. Gilbert) Princess Ida [com­plete opera; D’Oy­ly Carte]
26111. (Fleet Fox­es) Sun Giant EP
26112. (Franz Fer­di­nand) Darts of Plea­sure EP
26113. (Leoš Janáček) The Excur­sions of Mr. Brouček [Výle­ty páně Broučkovy] [com­plete
. . . . . opera: d. Bělohlávek; Vacík, Stra­ka, Haan, Janál]

READING — MARCH 2021

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24481. (Fran­cis­co J. Ayala & Cami­lo J. Cela-Conde) Process­es in Human Evolution
24482. (Alfre­do Mederos Martín) Mar­rue­cos entre los sig­los VI-II A.C. sus­tra­to fenicio,
. . . . . inter­ac­ción com­er­cial con Gadir y pres­en­cia Cartagi­ne­sa durante los Bárcidas
. . . . . [arti­cle]
24483. (Robert Hof­mann, et al) Gov­ern­ing Tripolye: Inte­gra­tive Archi­tec­ture in Tripolye 
. . . . . Set­tle­ments [arti­cle]
(David Edward Tabach­nick & Toi­vo Koivukos­ki ‑ed.) On Oli­garchy ― Ancient Lessons for . . . Glob­al Pol­i­tics:
. . . . 24484. (David Edward Tabach­nick & Toi­vo Koivukos­ki) Under­stand­ing Oligarchy 
. . . . . . . . . [pref­ace]
. . . . 24485. (Waller R. Newell) Oli­garchy and Oikono­mia: Aris­totle’s Ambivalent
. . . . . . . . . Assess­ment of Pri­vate Prop­er­ty [arti­cle]
. . . . 24486. (Jere­my S. Neill) Aris­to­tle and Amer­i­can Oli­garchy: A Study in Political 
. . . . . . . . . Influ­ence [arti­cle]
. . . . 24487. (Jef­frey Sikken­ga) Over­com­ing Oli­garchy: Repub­li­can­ism and the Right to 
. . . . . . . . . Prop­er­ty in The Fed­er­al­ist [arti­cle]
. . . . 24488. (Peter Simp­son) A Cor­rup­tion of Oli­garchs [arti­cle]
. . . . 24489. (Steven C. Skul­te­ty) The Threat of Mis­guid­ed Elite: Aris­to­tle on Oligarchy 
. . . . . . . . . [arti­cle]
. . . . 24490. (Lau­rie M. John­son Bag­by) Thucy­dides and the Impor­tance of Ide­ol­o­gy in 
. . . . . . . . . Con­flict [arti­cle]
. . . . 24491. (Leah Brad­shaw) Oli­garchs and Democ­rats [arti­cle]
. . . . 24492. (Geof­frey Kel­low) A Short­age of Men: Wealth, Rank, and Recog­ni­tion in
. . . . . . . . . Cicero’s Civic Edu­ca­tion [arti­cle]
. . . . 24493. (Toi­vo Koivukos­ki) On Oli­garchy: An Onto­log­i­cal Acc­count [arti­cle]
. . . . 24494. (Craig Coop­er) Oli­garchy and the Rule of Law [arti­cle]
24495. (Yvan Malig­orne) Sanc­tu­aires et struc­tures vic­i­nales dans deux chefs-lieux de cités
. . . . . de l’ouest de la Gaule [arti­cle]
24496. (Cathy Gal­lagher) My Name Is Gulpilil [arti­cle]
24497. (Tame Ramya) Explor­ing Fac­tors Behind Deo­mes­tic Vio­lence Against Nyishi
. . . . . Women in Arunachal Pradesh, North­east India [arti­cle]
24498. (Set­nam She­mar, et al) Towards Prac­ti­cal Autonomous Deep-space Navigation
. . . . . Using X‑Ray Pul­sar Tim­ing [arti­cle]
24499. (Jerôme Saulnier, Gian­lu­ca Sgueo & Ionel Zam­fir) Demo­c­ra­t­ic Insti­tu­tions and 
. . . . . Pros­per­i­ty: The Ben­e­fits of an Open Soci­ety [Euro­pean Par­lia­men­tary Research 
. . . . . Ser­vice] [Report]

Image of the Month

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FILMS — FEBRUARY 2021

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(Rus­sell 1986) Gothic
(Miller 1963) Cap­tain New­man, M.D.
(Ander­son 1973) O Lucky Man!
(Smith 2005) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.38 ― Orchis Fatalis
(Ash­er 1967) The Pris­on­er: Ep.10 ― Its Your Funeral
(Arnold 1959) The Mouse that Roared
(Car­pen­ter 1995) In the Mouth of Madness
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First-time listening for February 2021

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26094. (Sarah Shook & The Dis­arm­ers) Years
26095. (Leonar­do Leo) Cel­lo Con­cer­to #2 in D
26096. (Leonar­do Leo) Cel­lo Con­cer­to #5 in F
26097. (Leonar­do Leo) Cel­lo Con­cer­to #4 in A [vari­ant of short ver­sion at 13652]
26098. (Leonar­do Leo) Cel­lo Con­cer­to #3 in D
26099. (Leonar­do Leo) Cel­lo Con­cer­to #1 in A
26100. (Leonar­do Leo) Sin­fo­nia Con­cer­ta­ta [aka Cel­lo Con­cer­to #6] in C Minor
26101. (Owl City) Cinematic
26102. (Tyler the Cre­ator) Scum Fuck Flower Boy
26103. (Rokia Tra­oré) Beau­ti­ful Africa
26104. (Leopold Mozart) Con­cer­to for 2 Horns & Strings in E‑flat

READING — FEBRUARY 2021

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24463. (John J. Shea) Boule­vard of Bro­ken Dreams: Evo­lu­tion­ary Dis­con­ti­nu­ity in
. . . . . the Late Pleis­tocene Lev­ant [arti­cle]
24464. (David W. E. Hone & Thomas R. Holtz Jr.) Eval­u­at­ing the Ecol­o­gy of
. . . . . Spin­osaurus: Shore­line Gen­er­al­ist or Aquat­ic Pur­suit Spe­cial­ist [arti­cle]
24465. (Tom LoBian­co) Piety & Pow­er: Mike Pence and the Tak­ing of the White House
(Bil­ly Wolfen­barg­er) Lan­guage at Midnight:
. . . . 24466. (William Brei­d­ing) Preface
. . . . 24467. (G. Sut­ton Brei­d­ing) Intro­duc­tion [poem]
. . . . 24468. (Bil­ly Wolfen­barg­er) Lan­guage at Mid­night [arti­cle]
. . . . 24469. (Bil­ly Wolfen­barg­er) Bonus Bil­ly [arti­cle]
. . . . 24470. (Bil­ly Wolfen­barg­er) In the Final Cen­tu­ry [poem]
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Image of the Month

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FILMS — JANUARY 2021

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(Levin 1950) The Fly­ing Missile
(Fer­nan­do, Segu­ra & Simms 2019) Becom­ing Labrador
(Odar 2017) Dark: Ep.1 ― Geheimnisse [Secrets]
(Gre­go­ry 2014) Lost Soul: The Doomed Jour­ney of Richard Stan­ley’s Island of Dr. Moreau
(John­son 1986) Solarbabies
(Gar­cia-Moli­na 2019) Hel­lo, Love, Goodbye
(Mora­han 1986) Clockwise
(Flem­ing 1937) Cap­tains Courageous
(Ben­nett 1989) Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Ep.5 ― The Third Floor Flat
(Olcott & Vig­no­la 1911) Rory O’More
(Chaf­fey 1967) The Pris­on­er: Ep.8 ― Checkmate
(Cop­po­la 1983) Rum­ble Fish
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